Attachment for cooking utensils



June 19, 1928.

1,673,947 A. E. PADDISON ATTACHMENT FOR COOKING UTENSILS Filed Nov. 2, 1925 r l r l f- LE1- ff I =1 ,Rh g 7,27 Eu 7 Z 111 I III 7 awe/Bio;

atiozwu Patented June 19, 1928.

UNITED STATES ALIQE E. IPADDISON, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

ATTACHMENT FOR COOKING UTENSILS.

Application filed November 2, 1925.

several views and as described in the specili' ration 't'orxninga part of this application and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings in which I have shown the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure l is a plan view of the retainer strip after it is cut and before it is bent for use. Figure 2 is a section on line 22 of Figure 1). Figure i) is a side elevation of the device .in. place on a pie pan.

\Vhen baking pies having a liquid, and trait filling, the filling will boil and run outot the pie into the oven, thereby lessening the filling .in the finished pie and smudging the pie with burned matter. To overcome this di'tliculty I have invented a means tor sealing the edge ol the pie dough to a strip surrounding the pie and pan to which snip the edge oi? the pie crust is sealed by the expansion of thepie while it is being baked, and to keep all of the filling of the pie in the crust.

In the drawings I have shown the pie pan as A. A lia t metal strip 1 is stamped or cut from thin sheet metal, and on one end of which lugs 2 are provided, and on the other end an extended wing portion 3 is struck from the main metal strip 1 on the dotted line at and is bent upwardly until it is parallel with the main body of the said strip l. Slots 5 are cut along the said dotted line L and in which the lugs 2 are to be detacha 'ly engaged. Spaced apart slits 7 and 7 are made along the side edge of said strip 1 and the portion of metal between the said slit-s, shown at 6, is to be bent inwardly on the dotted line 8, to engage under the pan or other utensil, when the device is in place around the utensil. When the pie has been Serial No. 663210.

placed in the pie pan A and is ready for baking, the strip 1 is bent around the edge of the pie pan A and the lugs 2 are slipped down through the holes or slots 5 to hold the strip'l, contiguous the edge of the pan while the pie is being baked. WVith the strip 1 thus secured around the panthe portions of metal 6 between the said slits 7 and 7 are bent inwardly under the lower edge of the rim of the pie pan and the pie is then ready to be baked, with the device enclosing the pie and pan.

After the strip 1 has been bent to encircle the edge of the pan, the lugs 2 engaged within the slots 5, the pie may be trimmed by pushing the uncut edge of the assembled device down over the pie. When so trimmed the device is placed as described and when the heat of the oven is applied to the pie the expansion of the pie seals the edges to the device and prevents the boiling out of the lilling ot' the pie. There are several 01 the lugs 2 provided in order that the de vice may be secured around pie pans of different diameters.

Having thus described my invention and its use, I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim 1. An attachment for cooking utensils comprising a thin strip of metal having spaced apart portions on the lower edge thereof bent to engage with the edge ol the pan; means on the lower edge of said strip for connecting the ends together and leaving the upper inside surface entirely unobstructed so that the rim can be inverted to cut oil the dough at the edge of the pan, substantially described.

An attachment for cooking utensils con'iprising a thin strip of metal having spaced apart portions on the lower edge thereof, cut and adapted to be bent to engage with the edge of the pan; and means on the lower edge of said strip for connecting the strip into an annular ring adapted to encircle a pan but with the upper inside surface entirely unobstructed so that the rim can be inverted to remove the dough at the edge of the pan.

In testimony whereof I have alfixed my signature.

ALICE E. PADDISON. 

